Ray Marshall v. Board Of Education, Bergenfield, New Jersey

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a judgment is not void absent a “total want of jurisdiction” or “a clear usurpation of power” (citation omitted)
• collecting cases holding that Rule 60(b)(5) does not apply to judgments for money damages
• contrasted with a damage award, which is \inherently final\ and is unaffected by a later change in the law
• “By contrast, a judgment at law for damages for past wrongs is ‘inherently final’ . . . .”
• “A ‘prospective’ injunction envisions a restraint of future conduct, not an order to remedy past wrongs when the compensation payment is withheld from the beneficiaries until some subsequent date.”
• “A judgment may indeed be void . . . if the court that rendered it lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter or the parties or entered ‘a decree which is not within the powers granted to it by the law.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).